Order a variable containing "_" not allowed

[Tobias Bergsmann]

I tried to reorder some variables in my dataset for better overview which worked fine in most cases. However when i tried

 order b_d b_o b_s, after(b)

(these are three different variables that sould be ordered after the var "b". Sorry for the bad readability)

I got

factor-variable and time-series operators not allowed

. Since I am relatively new I assume that is not a bug, but rather a mistake on my side but I could not find any solution to this.
Could you please explain my mistake and how to do this correctly? I guess it is due to my variable naming, and if so, is there another way to do it besides renaming them?

Greetings,
Tobias

[Sergiy Radyakin]

I could not reproduce the issue in Stata 17.0 (Windows):

clear all
version 17.0

input b_d b_o b_s b
      1 2 3 4
end

order b_d b_o b_s, after(b)

/* end of file */

. des

Contains data
 Observations:             1                  
    Variables:             4                  
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
b               float   %9.0g                 
b_d             float   %9.0g                 
b_o             float   %9.0g                 
b_s             float   %9.0g                 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorted by: 
     Note: Dataset has changed since last saved.

Please provide more details as the issue may be caused by some not-mentioned factor.

Best, Sergiy

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

I think you might have made a typo (either in what you show here as your -order- command, or what you typed at your keyboard into Stata). I cannot reproduce your problem in Stata 18.

clear
set obs 1
gen b_d=1
gen b_o=2
gen b_s=3
gen b=0
order b_d b_o b_s, after(b)
desc

Edit: Crossed with #2

[Tobias Bergsmann]

Thanks for your help!

I just tried byreloading the data set and for some reason it worked just fine. I have no idea what I did wrong...

What I can provide:
I use Stata 15.1 (windows)
b_d b_o b_s are all floats and b is a double.

sorry for wasting your time and once again, thank you! (should I delete the post since its probably just due to my machine/incompetence/some random error?)

[Nick Cox]

No need to apologise, but you cannot delete the post. See 16.2 at https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#closure

Your caution about shouting "Bug!" is appreciated. If it was a bug, seemingly it has been fixed.

[Tobias Bergsmann]

I see. Thank you for your claification!
I assume that Leonardo Guizzetti was probably right in that it was just a typo from my side, as I could "reproduce" the failure by trying the command withouth the "," sperating options() from variable input.